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Show SOCIALIST PARTY ' ADOPTS PLATFORM The SwMftllsl party passed the follow-Ing follow-Ing resolutions at the county and legislative legisla-tive convention. "Re It resolved that we, the members of the Socialist parly of Halt Lake county coun-ty tn convention assembled on the Jh day of October, 118. do hereby reaffirm our adherence to the principles nf international inter-national socialism and the platform and the demands of the Socialist party of the t'nlted States. "Be It further resolved that we affirm once more our oposltloii to the prent sstem of autocracy and gred which tuber tu-ber ea In the private ownerahip of the means of production, distribution and exchange. ex-change. We hereby pledge our candl-riatea candl-riatea If elected to office to labor fur the acqiihiitlon by the atale and th municipality munici-pality of all public utilities, such as street railways, electric light and power, gaa, coal yards, public warehouses, etc. "In our endeavor to realise a government govern-ment for, and by. and of the people, aa embodied In the leclaration of Independence, Independ-ence, ve further pledge ourselves again lo work for proportional representation, for th initiative, the referendum and the recall. "Be It further resolved that we favor the adoption of the Joint resolution. No. . at the laat biennial stale legislature, which refers to th taxstkon of the mines." |